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GET YOUR KIDS
TO COOK THESE
HOLIDAYS PAGE 21
4 April, 2012
Local, Loyal and Loving it!
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BREAKING
WALKER PAGE 17
The Waiau Health Trust is
increasingly hopeful the Southern
District Health Board (SDHB) will
do an about turn on its decision
to stop funding the Tuatapere
Maternity Hospital after a
promising conversation last week.
The trust last met with board
representatives about two weeks
ago, pleading for the decision to
be reversed and handing over five
pages of documentation backing
up its case for the lead maternity
carer (LMC) model to be trialled
as an alternative to the existing,
unsustainable funding model.
With the March 31 deadline
looming, new trust chairman
Justin Lewis made contact with
the board last week seeking
a response and was told that
no formal reply could be made
until after Easter. However, he
was assured that the board was
looking at ways to support the
LMC model and the trust could
“take this as a positive”.
Mr Lewis said despite the informal
nature of the conversation,
this represented a “massive
turnaround” from the board which
only weeks ago had been adamant
the funding would cease. It had
given the trustees renewed hope.
“We’re excited but we’re a bit
sceptical as well,” he said. “We’re
hopeful and we’re looking forward
to their response.”
SDHB funding for the maternity
hospital ceased on Saturday but
the facility has remained open,
with two women booked to give
birth there whose due dates were
this week.
The hospital can continue to
operate because the trust
has been thrown a lifeline by
its parent trust the Tuatapere
Community Medical Services
Trust, which Mr Lewis also chairs.
The medical trust has agreed to
advance the Waiau Health Trust
the funds necessary to keep the
maternity home operational in
order to trial the LMC model. This
was within the medical trust’s
charter which included providing
birthing services to the women of
Tuatapere. It was money that had
been raised by the community and
invested over the past 20 years
and the medical trust felt it was
appropriate to use it to bridge
the gap until the SDHB could be
convinced to change its mind.
The trust has also begun a search
for a part-time maternity hospital
manager, initially for three months,
while the independant midwive
model is trialled.
•Continued on Page 3
Hope rising
Superb weather greeted
participants in the Northern
Southland Tennis Open last
weekend, making for a top class
debut for Te Anau’s new tennis
courts.
The courts were officially opened
at a function hosted by the
Fiordland Community Event Centre
Trust on Friday night before being
put to the test on Saturday.
Te Anau Tennis Club president
Greg Sheppard said a children’s
tournament and well-supported
community open session on
Saturday was followed by some
top competitive action on Sunday
with about 30 players taking part
in the open championship.
The open men’s title was won
by Kelvin Wilson, of Dipton, and
the women’s by Balfour’s Janine
Donaldson. The winners of the
children’s tournament were Reid
Heegan and Ruby Nicholson-Kelly.
Featuring five tennis or three
netball courts, the facility has a
Rebound Synpave surface and
has been completed well ahead of
expectations, thanks to generous
community support. Only about
$19,000 is left to be raised to
clear the remaining debt.
Top tennis action fitting debut for new Te Anau courts
Kelvin Wilson, of Dipton, on his way to winning the open men’s title on Sunday at the first Northern Southland Tennis
Open to be held on the new courts at Te Anau.
PHOTO: Kirsty Macnicol
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